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The distance between Fort Lee and Washington is 185 km. The road distance is 215 km.

What is the cheapest way to get from Fort Lee to Washington?

The cheapest way to get from Fort Lee to Washington is to drive which costs $13 - $19 and takes 2 h 14 min.

What is the fastest way to get from Fort Lee to Washington?

The quickest way to get from Fort Lee to Washington is to fly which takes 2 h 13 min and costs $220 - $460.

How long does it take to get from Fort Lee to Washington?

It takes approximately 3 h 23 min to get from Fort Lee to Washington, including transfers.

Washington, United States

Washington, D.C. is the nation’s capital and the political hub of the United States. Steeped in history and world-famous attractions, D.C. (as it’s more popularly known) has so much on offer. Say hi to the president at the White House or pay homage to past ones at the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials and the Washington Monument. Immerse yourself in the numerous top-notch museums at the National Mall, visit Capitol Hill (home of the US Senate, Houses of Representatives and the Supreme Court), or saunter down Embassy Row for the ultimate United Nations experience.

Things to do in Washington

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acre the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), controls the cemetery.

The National Mall is a national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Park Service (NPS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior administers the National Mall, which is part of its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 ft tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 ft tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances.

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.

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